Redundant System Upgrade; Overview - Nortel 5100 Supplementary Manual

Redundant system upgrade

Use the procedures in this section to upgrade a redundant Medium System
(eight servers).

Overview

Each of the following sections describes a required procedure.
These procedures must be performed in the order given.
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"Launch the Oracle Enterprise Manager Console" (page 54)
"Verify the deferred database transactions queue" (page 55)
"Drop database replication" (page 56)
"Failover the primary System Manager" (page 59)
"Launch the MCS Management Console" (page 56)
"Stop the Server Monitor" (page 57)
"Stop the Database Monitor" (page 58)
"Stop primary network elements" (page 58)
"Back up the primary database" (page 60)
"Install primary Linux patches (if required)" (page 60)
"Install primary Oracle patches (if required)" (page 62)
"Load the primary upgrade" (page 63)
"Extract the primary load" (page 64)
"Run the primary upgrade script" (page 65)
"Stop the secondary System Manager" (page 66)
"Update the license key" (page 66)
"Deploy and start primary network elements" (page 67)
Nortel Multimedia Communication Server 5100
MCS Upgrades—Maintenance Releases
NN42020-303 01.08 Standard
Release 4.0 10 August 2007
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